Music: 200-Condlepower

Everywhere last week, or so it seemed, music was celebrating the birth
of one of its mightiest titans 200 years ago on an upper floor of
Bonngasse 515, Bonn. New productions of Fidelio were unveiled at
Stockholm's Royal Opera and New York's Metropolitan. Bonn capped months
of festivities with the Missa solemnis. In Tokyo, where Beethoven is a
rapture-inducing favorite, the Ninth Symphony was done twice in one
day. In Los Angeles, Zubin Mehta, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a
phalanx of friends staged a twelve-hour Beethoven marathon. And in
honor of the...